English Classes for Employees to Improve Workplace Communication

Customized Workplace English Training to Improve Communication and Performance

Improve Workplace Communication with Clear English Pronunciation

Clear communication is essential for an effective workplace. Many Australian companies employ skilled professionals from overseas, but unclear English pronunciation, expressions or grammar weaknesses can sometimes make communication with colleagues and customers more difficult. This can lead to misunderstandings, errors, and frustration.

Our workplace English training helps employees improve pronunciation, more natural expression, clarity, and confidence so they can communicate more effectively in professional settings.

English Training for International and Australian Employees

Our tailored English programs support both international and Australian employees in developing essential workplace communication skills.

We help employees improve:

• Clear English pronunciation and speaking skills
• Business writing and professional email communication
• Grammar and punctuation accuracy
• Public speaking and presentation skills
• Confidence in workplace interactions

Whether your staff need Business English training, professional communication skills, or general English support, our programs are designed to deliver practical, real-world results

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Personalized English Training with Needs Analysis

At Speak Better English, we provide customized English training programs designed around your organisation’s specific needs.

We begin with a detailed Needs Analysis to identify communication challenges and set clear goals. From there:

• We match your staff with experienced English and ESL teachers
• We design a tailored training program
• We focus on measurable improvements in workplace communication

We will work closely with you to understand your goals, select the right tutor, and create a program that delivers real outcomes for your employees.

Individual and Small Group English Training for Employees of Veli Velisha Fresh Produce in Melbourne's West in 2018-2019

At the request of Veli Velisha Managing Director Catherine Velisha, Speak Better English is providing tutoring for a range of staff members with English levels ranging from minimal to moderate. 

In 2019, tutor Meryl Johnson worked on Skype with staff members, either singly or in pairs. 

This program has caught the attention of SBS, and you can see their report here: 

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/the-australian-farmer-providing-english-lessons-for-her-migrant-workers

Group Training for Powernet by Speak Better English  in March 2017

Powernet IT Solutions is an Australian company that provides superior technology solutions for businesses. The Powernet consultants often work with their clients online or on the phone, so the Melbourne office approached Speak Better English to design a program to help the IT consultants polish their verbal communication skills in order to increase the effectiveness of their service. Sally Landers was the tutor who designed and conducted this program on behalf of Speak Better English.

The following feedback was provided by Chris Goddard, the Quality Manager at Melbourne Powernet:

Time organisation

Marianne / Speak Better English were very responsive, great at organising and great at collecting relevant information regarding the coordination of the training. It all felt well-choreographed. They drove everything from their end, which was great and really assisted me (with my extreme time/resource constraints) to organise everything.

Materials organisation

Sally / SBE were fantastic at organising tailored material ahead of the training. I was extremely grateful at how attentive it was and how she ensured that she had researched ahead of the sessions to know the consultants’ abilities and personalities. Sally is quite clearly a master of her trade. Funnily enough, just being around her made me think about my grammar and even enunciation (which I tend to get lazy with).

Personal

Marianne and Sally are extremely personable and friendly, and great to work with. They are both extremely easy to get along with and are very approachable.

Training style

Sally appeared to embody a nurturing, caring style of teaching. There was an obvious feedback loop, which she was adept at utilising throughout the course. This meant that each trainee seemed to get full value from the teaching.

Material

All consultants had nothing but good things to say about the content. They were extremely happy with the material, confident at having picked up useful information, and seemed assured from the course. Two consultants went out of their way to tell me about specifics of the language that they had not realised, especially regarding inflection. We were kindly provided with the course material post-sessions along with a relevant interesting article. We intend to work these into some general best practice workshops on time entries (which appear on client invoices).

Recommendation

We would not hesitate to use Speak Better English again or recommend them to other organisations – both for groups and for one-on-one sessions.

PS Sally is simply awesome by the way! The consultants all said that they would not hesitate to recommend the training or the training provider.

Chris Goddard

Manager | Quality

Phone: +61 3 9927 6000

https://www.power-net.com.au/

A Customized Program for ACASE (October-November 2016): Pitch Coaching 

Recently the CEO of the Australia-China Association of Scientists and Entrepreneurs asked Speak Better English to design a program to help candidates to prepare for the ACASE Entrepreneurs Pitch Night at the Melbourne Town Hall. We provided a seminar focusing on the structure and content of a “pitch” (very different from academic writing, which most scientists are skilled at), and followed that up with private sessions coaching individual presenters on their written and oral presentations for the competition. 

The feedback from the projects was very positive, and two of the three winners of the competition, Cheng Huang and Melvin Lee - two of the coaching recipients - will be travelling to China in December to meet potential investors and manufacturers, and explore markets for their inventions.

How to Deliver Your Pitch

This workshop was conducted for 50 participants in September by Speak Better English tutor, Sally Landers. After the workshop, Sally and tutor Deb Williams discuss the challenges and the possibilities with participants.

At the Melbourne Town Hall on October 20, nine ACASE members made their pitch to potential investors from government and the private sector. It is no mean feat to explain your product persuasively in three minutes, when English is not your native language!

Cheng Huang (Smart Smoke Alarm), David (Airly), and Melvin Lee (Synermatic) won great prizes including a travel package to the China Roadshow where they will have face-to-face discussions about their product with government and private sector investors.

After the very successful Pitch Nig ht, some of the ACASE organizers and some of the Speak Better English pitch coaches (English teachers!) posed in front of this brand new, hard-to-forget banner!